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Above is the tweed jacket and waistcoat.

Kilt is a Lamont Modern

White shirt with either solid green tie, black tie or club tie with greens blues and reds in it.

Option 1. My budget really could do with just black hose, green flashes and black brogues with black daywear sporran as I already own most of this.

Option 2. Or with this tweed am I best going for all brown leather accessories and green hose with red flashes

[creagdhubh]

You can't go wrong with lovat blue, lovat green, bottle green, or dark red/maroon kilt hose. I have lots of different pairs of flashes, but find that I only wear the red ones.

Same here.

[OC Richard]

In your humble opinions lads and lassies would a black day sporran with black brogues look wrong with a tweed jacket and waistcoat??

Not "wrong" at all, but to my eye black day sporrans always look a bit odd, a bit out of place. Why? Seeing hundreds, thousands, of examples men wearing brown sporrans with black shoes, going back long before our modern "day" and "evening" sporrans evolved at the beginning of the 20th century.

Lord Duffus in 1700, one of our earliest clear depictions of Highland Dress, showing a brown leather sporran and black shoes



In the "traditional Highland Dress" which has come down to us from the early 20th century "day" sporrans were nearly always brown. Myself, when I got into kiltwearing in the mid 1970s, don't remember ever seeing a black "day" sporran for some time, and when I did I though it odd even then.

Here you see in old catalogues (from three different firms) from the 1930s brown "day" sporrans and black shoes







Yet a fourth firm from the 1930s... all "day" sporrans are brown



Here is You Know Who keeping with this tradition

[Jock Scot]

In your humble opinions lads and lassies would a black day sporran with black brogues look wrong with a tweed jacket and waistcoat??

I don't think there is a "right" and "wrong" here, black brogues are certainly more common when worn with the kilt in Scotland and black sprorrans are certainly not an unusual sight. For me? I usually wear black brogues and only wear a black sporran, strap and sometimes belt. I leave it up to you to think if the chap in the following picture has his attire something near right.

[Spartan Tartan]

All I have are black shoes and a black sporran for day wear.

[creagdhubh]

Well said, Jock. And you and your lovely bride look wonderful by the way!

Best wishes,

[David Thorpe]

Well said, Jock. And you and your lovely bride look wonderful by the way!

Best wishes,

Plus One

Just to muddy the waters a bit, my favorite sporran is a hunting done in black AND brown.

[OC Richard]

Very smart-looking there Jock I must say!

But in my opinion it would look just a tiny bit more "old school" with a brown sporran

I guess I got so used to the brown sporran/black brogues thing over the years that when people have matching leather I notice it.

(Who am I to talk anyhow? I wear a goathair sporran for Day Dress!)

Hey that black & brown hunting sporran is lovely! Covers all the bases as we say.

To "muddy the waters" even more, how about these lovely L&M Hunting Sporrans?? I've not seen these in person but they look great on their website.





OK yes nowadays I wear a goathair sporran all the time (like they used to do) but here I am back in the 1980s wearing the (to my eye) traditional look of brown sporran with black shoes. (The tartan necktie wasn't my idea; I had to wear it for the photo.)

[Tobus]

I don't fancy black hose. My recommendation is lovat blue, lovat green, bottle green, or dark red/maroon. Green flashes are okay.

I don't fancy black hose either, and especially not with day wear. There's something just 'not right' to me about wearing black hose with a tweed jacket/waistcoat. So I second davidlpope's recommendation. Heck, pick any colour for hose. It'll be better than black.

As for flashes, I suppose green would be OK, but I prefer the traditional red flashes/garters, regardless of whatever else is going on in the mix.

[JohntheBiker]

All I have are black shoes and a black sporran for day wear.

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